Trigeminal neuralgia: A chance of stroke, or a stroke of chance?

Give chance a chance

How did I get to become a cell biologist? Or, more generally, why do things happen the way they do? The answer provided by the philosopher Democritus and later adopted by Jacques Monod is "everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." While I read Monod's book Chance and Necessity as an undergraduate student, little did I appreciate the accuracy of this citation and...

Subclinical Hypothyroidism or Thyroid Autoimmunity and Variant Angina: By Chance? or with a Chance?

Proper functioning of thyroid is of importance due to its effects on the cardiovascular system. Furthermore, the relationship between hyperthyroidism and coronary vasospasm is well-known and has been continuously reported since the first description in a case report in 1979. The most important treatment of thyroid disease is the control of thyrotoxicosis and the majority of cases showed excelle...

Second malignancy--a chance or probability!

Clopidogrel With Aspirin in Acute Minor Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack (CHANCE) Trial: One-Year Outcomes.

BACKGROUND The Clopidogrel in High-risk patients with Acute Non-disabling Cerebrovascular Events (CHANCE) trial showed that the combined treatment of clopidogrel and aspirin decreases the 90-day risk of stroke without increasing hemorrhage in comparison with aspirin alone, but provided insufficient data to establish whether the benefit persisted over a longer period of time beyond the trial ter...

For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke

       Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and la...